I've recently renovated and extended a 1940's 3 bed house which has oil fired central heating. It has with a tank in an airing cuboard fed from a tank in the loft.
I had to move the boiler (Ecoflow?) at one point to make room for an extension and in doing so replaced a few new parts (nozel, ignition pack, electrodes, control box) and generally gave it a good seeing to.
The boiler seems to be man enough and in good enough condition. Despite adding a couple of high output rads in the extension, temperature wise all is well.
As for water... I've added an all singing all dancing steam room/shower/bath thing, and a downstairs toilet with hand basin.
The only trouble is I have low pressure output from all the hot water taps.
I was simply intending to fit a single shower pump in the airing cuboard on the pipe that feeds the hot water taps. Would this work? I was thinking maybe it ends up going back to the boiler in which case it could cock things up?
Anyway a friend of mine came round the other day who happens to work for a certain company and says he can get me a Megaflow FOC. I have to admit I'd never heard of them before but from what I've managed to find out so far everyone is raving about them.
So I guess I'm really wondering what the benefits of having a Megaflow other than good hot water pressure? Do I really want to go to all the hassle of fitting a megaflow when my little shower pump idea would suffice?
As you've probably worked out already I'm certainly not a heating engineer but have a good understanding of how things work and always like to have a go myself. So any help or advice greatfully recieved.
I had to move the boiler (Ecoflow?) at one point to make room for an extension and in doing so replaced a few new parts (nozel, ignition pack, electrodes, control box) and generally gave it a good seeing to.
The boiler seems to be man enough and in good enough condition. Despite adding a couple of high output rads in the extension, temperature wise all is well.
As for water... I've added an all singing all dancing steam room/shower/bath thing, and a downstairs toilet with hand basin.
The only trouble is I have low pressure output from all the hot water taps.
I was simply intending to fit a single shower pump in the airing cuboard on the pipe that feeds the hot water taps. Would this work? I was thinking maybe it ends up going back to the boiler in which case it could cock things up?
Anyway a friend of mine came round the other day who happens to work for a certain company and says he can get me a Megaflow FOC. I have to admit I'd never heard of them before but from what I've managed to find out so far everyone is raving about them.
So I guess I'm really wondering what the benefits of having a Megaflow other than good hot water pressure? Do I really want to go to all the hassle of fitting a megaflow when my little shower pump idea would suffice?
As you've probably worked out already I'm certainly not a heating engineer but have a good understanding of how things work and always like to have a go myself. So any help or advice greatfully recieved.